Wednesday, 29 April 2009

GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM !!



Go back to where you came from !!
What Kings College Hospital yeah ?
Because as far as I know that’s the place where I entered this world...
Or do you mean back to where my mum’s from? ..
Because she entered through guys...
Which unfortunately for you is still the same borough? Is that not far enough?
I sense that you might mean
Africa
Well personally , I’ve never laid eyes upon Kunta Kinte , or Simba or Tarzan and no I haven’t seen the colour purple or read the jungle book ..
Or any other stereotypes you force-feed me so that you can feel tolerant ...
I’m proud that you look into my eyes and see a strong ebony Zulu woman dancing in celebration or a Majestic Masai woman hunting her prey ...
But I’m just a black girl in Peckham running for the bus...
And yes I’m proud that my grandmother can m ake 27 different meals from one cassava But if you take me to Morley’s I will still order the same £1.99 2 piece chicken and chips ...drink optional ...

It’s ironic because, it’s you who brought me here ..and maybe you didn’t buy my plane ticket or smuggle me in on a derelict ship ...But you cursed my people ..to wither within a cycle of poverty, corruption , debt and interest..
Its your ancestors who crippled mine in the great battle of gun versus spear...
The same people perpetuating the notion that £2 a month can save an economy...
Adverts which strip us of any civilisation or are just clips of our bloated bellied children chewing crumbs...
Africa ...where every sentence has connotations of aid...
If its not The AIDS then its Live aid or Band aid or another commercialised event made
So that every westerner can sleep easy
breezing through life guiltless even though it cost exactly 3 souls to put a diamond in that necklace you just had to have...
When your watching the news complaining about how us so called foreigners have taken all your jobs and are the cause of this recession remember us so called foreigners were content in our foreign lands ...
Praying to the sun or what other tribalistic religion you think we believe in ...
It was your people who rounded us up like cattle and herded us out to every corner of every continent..
Then traded us out to every country in every continent... then sent us back to fend for ourselves two centuries behind with colonialisms apology...

So how about you go back to where you came from ...
or where it is your probably going..in other words ..
Go to Hell !

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